How to format your references using the Cryptogamie, Algologie citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cryptogamie, Algologie. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Cochrane M.A. 2003. — Fire science for rainforests. Nature 421 (6926): 913–919

A journal article with 2 authors

Price D.J. & Rosswog S. 2006. — Producing ultrastrong magnetic fields in neutron star mergers. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312 (5774): 719–722

A journal article with 3 authors

Borgia G., Coyle B.J. & Keagy J. 2012. — Comment on ‘Illusions promote mating success in great bowerbirds’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 337 (6092): 292; author reply 292

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Del Rio A., Perez-Jimenez R., Liu R., Roca-Cusachs P., Fernandez J.M. & Sheetz M.P. 2009. — Stretching single talin rod molecules activates vinculin binding. Science (New York, N.Y.) 323 (5914): 638–641

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Saguet P. 2013. — Numerical Analysis in Electromagnetics. Hoboken, NJ USA, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bussler, C. & Shan, M.-C. (Eds.) 2006. — Technologies for E-Services: 6th International Workshop, TES 2005, Trondheim, Norway, September 2-3, 2005, Revised Selected PapersVol. 3811. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer. VIII, 127 p p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

A chapter in an edited book

Yao J. & Huang Z.-Q. 2016. — Hybrid Fracture Model, in Huang Z.-Q. (ed.), Fractured Vuggy Carbonate Reservoir Simulation. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer. p. 189–207. (Springer Mineralogy).

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Cryptogamie, Algologie.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. — Seven Teeny Tiny Species Of Frog Discovered In BrazilAvailable from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/seven-teeny-tiny-frog-species-discovered-brazil-aaaaaw/ [accessed 30 October 2018]

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office 1989. — Senate Bill 543: The Job Training Partnership Act Youth Employment Amendments of 1989 N�T-HRD-89-18. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Darnell C. 2017. — Sharecropping in Higher Education: Case Study of the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University - Florida State University Joint College of Engineering Doctoral dissertation. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Otis J. 2016. — A ‘Do It’ Kind of Woman Waits for the Strength to Get Back to Being Herself. New York Times: A24

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Cochrane 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Cochrane 2003; Price & Rosswog 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Price & Rosswog 2006)
Three or more authors: (Del Rio et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cryptogamie, Algologie
ISSN (print)	0181-1568
ISSN (online)	1776-0984
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